Word: sweeping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This sweep left observers surer than ever that, if Governor Landon hurdles the California primaries this week, he can jog in an easy winner at Cleveland. Breaking his discreet silence for the first time with a direct statement on the Republican race, the happy Kansas Governor wired to the Boston Herald: "The splendid Republican vote in Massachusetts should give heart to the entire country. So far as its personal bearing is concerned, I am deeply grateful for the confidence in me that it demonstrates. But I believe it reflects something of more significance than any personal factor...
...Roger Cutler, second string timer, took over the job. Cutler will swing the Varsity oar again today until Chaco's recovery, anticipated by the doctor on Wednesday, puts him back at stroke in the second boat. In the Jayvees yesterday Kernan went forward to pull the number two sweep and Roosevelt returned to his post...
Fortnight ago lively Director John Edgar Hoover of the Federal Bureau of Investigation stepped briskly before the Senate Appropriations subcommittee to plead for an increase of $1,025,000 in his organization's 1937 spending money. Kidnapping would sweep the country again, he said, if one cent were slashed from the proposed amount. Promptly Tennessee's McKellar launched a blistering attack on the Bureau for strong-arm methods, swell-headedness. "It seems to me," the vociferous Senator snapped, "your department is just running wild." Evidently more impressed by Senator McKellar than by Director Hoover, the subcommittee sliced...
Losing only two singles matches and making a clean sweep of the doubles the Varsity tennis team disposed of the Amherst netmen to the tune of 7 to 2 yesterday afternoon. The visitor's two victories were obtained at the expense of Jim Thackera, who has had tough going at the number 1 post, and Bob Bentley, who recently displaced Robertson at number...
...Budge. Next day, Allison played 18 holes of near-par golf, joined his partner Van Ryn to run through Flavio Martinez and Marco Antonio Mestre 6-0, 6-2, went back to the links for another nine holes which he started with a birdie. The series became a clean sweep the following day when Grant beat Reyes, 6-4, 13-11, 6-2, and Budge polished off Hernandez...